Inspired to Accessorize

My husband and I have been blessed with being ableelk antlers. It was the most magnificent thing I had
to live in a log home in the foothills of Colorado forever seen. This chandelier was so incredibly perfect
the last three and a half years. I often come acrossfor our log home. Installing this gorgeous piece of art
articles of people searching for the perfect log homeat the highest peak in our great room took a bit of
accessories to compliment the beautiful woodsyeffort, but the results were awesome.
interiors of their log homes.As a result of this gratifying experience, I reluctantly
We like so many otheres, have done the neverquit my job in town, and now spend my days
ending search for the perfect accessories toworking with aspen and pine logs. I am now creating
compliment our log home. We've spent countlessbeautiful one-of-a-kind table lamps, floor lamps and
hours searching the internet, home accessory stores,chandeliers. I have added a few other accessories to
furniture stores and antique shops. The biggestmy collection, including handcrafted lampshades and
challenge we faced, was lighting for our home. Myadorable aspen log reindeer for the holidays, but I
husband and I wanted something that would reflectfocus mainly on log lighting. My son worked weeks
our interests and keep with the log look and feel ofbuilding a website for me, so that I would have a
our home. On more than one occasion, we purchasedplace to display my work. I am very excited about
a light fixture, took it home and hung it up, only tomy newly found occupation, and am looking forward
discover that it just wasn't right. So, it was carefullyto creating many more pieces of art that will find
placed back into the original box (this is no easytheir way into homes everywhere.
task), and returned to the store. After severalMy husband still teases me when he gets home from
weeks of disappointment and on the verge of givingwork at the end of the day. I'll be covered in saw
up completely, we came to the conclusion that wedust from head to toe, smudges on my face, and
had two choices, keep looking for the perfect lighteager to show him my newest creations. With a big
fixture, or create our own.grin, and a bit of humor in his voice, he wittingly
We chose the second option. My husband and Iremarks, "not bad for a girl".
designed and built a chandelier using aspen logs and